Section 47a-70 - Housing docket. Entry and transfer of cases on docket(a) All proceedings involving a housing matter in the judicial district of Hartford, New Britain, New Haven, Bridgeport, Waterbury or Stamford-Norwalk shall first be placed on the housing docket for that district, provided the judge before whom such proceeding is brought may transfer such matter to the regular docket for a judicial district if he determines that such matter is not a housing matter or that such docket is more suitable for the disposition of the case. Any case so entered or transferred to either docket shall be proceeded upon as are other cases of like nature standing on such docket.(b) If two or more actions are pending between the same parties, including for the purposes hereof any other court proceedings arising out of or connected with the same housing accommodation, of which one or more of such actions is on the housing docket and one or more of such actions is on some other docket, the judge handling such other docket, upon motion of any party to any of such actions, may order that the action pending on such docket, with all papers relating thereto, be transferred to the housing docket; and such action or actions shall thereafter proceed as though originally entered there.Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47a-70
(P.A. 78-365, S. 6, 13; P.A. 81-419, S. 2; P.A. 82-461, S. 2; P.A. 88-230, S. 4, 12; P.A. 90-98, S. 1, 2; P.A. 93-142 , S. 7 , 8 ; P.A. 95-220 , S. 4 -6; P.A. 17-99 , S. 6 .)
Amended by P.A. 23-0046,S. 36 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2023 Regular Session, eff. 1/1/2024.Amended by P.A. 17-0099, S. 6 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2017 Regular Session, eff. 10/1/2017. Cited. 214 Conn. 256 ; 217 Conn. 57 . Housing judge has the discretion to transfer to regular civil docket a summary process action which because of its complexity would formerly have been outside the ambit of summary process. 1 Conn.App. 439 .
See Sec. 51-51v re appointment of clerks for housing matters. See Sec. 51-165 re assignment of judges to hear housing matters. See Sec. 51-278(b) re designation of assistant or deputy assistant state's attorneys to prosecute housing matters. See Sec. 51-348 re separate docket for housing matters.